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LAWS OF MARYLAND

Ch. 820

Article - Real Property

3-301.

(a) If the person offering a deed or other instrument
affecting property for record first pays the recording fees,
the clerk of the circuit court of each county [and the
Superior Court of Baltimore City] shall record every deed
and other instrument affecting property in well-bound books
to be named "Land Records," if that is the practice in the
county, or on microfilm, if that is the practice. The clerk
shall endorse on the deed or other instrument the time he
receives the document for recording and the endorsement
shall show in the Land Records. Any deed or other instrument
affecting property which also affects personal property
shall be recorded in the same manner in the land records
only, and not in the "Financing Records."

3-302.

(a) The clerk of the circuit court of each county [and
the Superior Court of Baltimore City] shall make and
maintain a full and complete general alphabetical index of
every deed, and other instrument in a well-bound book in his
office. The index shall be both in the name of each
grantor, donor, mortgagor, and assignor, and each grantee,
donee, mortgagee, or assignee. It shall include the book
and page of the recordation of every instrument designating
these names. The clerk shall index every deed or other
instrument retaining a vendor's lien both as a deed and as a
vendor's lien, in the same manner as mortgages are indexed.

3-401.

(a)  Notices of liens on real property for obligations
payable to the United States, and certificates and notices
affecting the liens shall be filed in the office of the
clerk of the circuit court of the county[, or of the
Superior Court of Baltimore City,] in which the real
property subject to the liens is situated.

(b)  Notices of liens on tangible or intangible
personal property for obligations payable to the United
States and certificates ' and notices affecting the liens
shall be filed as follows:

(1) If the person against whose interest the
lien applies is a corporation or a partnership whose
principal executive office is in the state, as these
entities are defined in the internal revenue laws of the
United States, in the office of the clerk of the circuit
court of the county[, or of the Superior Court of Baltimore
City,] where the principal executive office is located;